Re: [docbook-apps] Unable to get the document 'title' and 'releaseinfo'

[Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

spr wrote:
> I have been able to customize the header and footer, but unable to put right
> information where I need.
> 
> Have tried to access them by these:
>   <xsl:value-of  select="ancestor-or-self::d:book/d:info/d:title"/>
>   <xsl:value-of  select="ancestor-or-self::book/info/title"/>
>   <xsl:value-of  select="/book/info/title"/>

Are you using the docbook xslt that strips out the namespaces?

If so, //title[1] should find the title?

HTH

> 
> But result is always "empty" string...
> DocBook 5 XML
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC 
>     "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V5.0//EN"
>     "file:///D:/wrk/BookTest/docbook-5.0CR5/dtd/docbook.dtd" [
> <!ENTITY nbsp               " ">
> ]>
> 
> <book
>     lang        = "en"
>     xmlns       = "http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; version="5.0"
>     xmlns:xi    = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
>     xmlns:xsl   = "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>     xmlns:xlink = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";> 
> 
>     <info>
>       <title>Book Title</title>
>       <releaseinfo>Release Info</releaseinfo>
>     </info>
> 
>     <chapter id="test">
>       <info>
>         <title>Test Chapter</title>
>       </info>
>       <para>
>       simple test para
>       </para>
>     </chapter>
> </book>
> 
> Customization XSL : Attached file test-headers.xsl
> 
> Command Used
> fop-0.94\fop.bat -xml input\test\index.xml -xsl custom\test-header.xsl -pdf
> output\test\test.pdf
> 
> Result : Attached file test.pdf
> 
> Attachments:
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p12976720/test.pdf test.pdf 
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p12976720/test-header.xsl test-header.xsl 


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